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August 2001

Volume 54, Issue 8

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A Phase Odyssey

Keith A. Nugent, David Paganin, and Tim E. Gureyev
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Phase measurement permeates modern science. New propagation‐based alternatives to interferometry are providing increased opportunities for phase measurements using x rays, electrons, neutrons, and other waves.
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Turbulent Heat Flow: Structures and Scaling

Leo P. Kadanoff


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Geometrical structures and scaling behavior provide insights into the nature of convective turbulence and some risky generalizations about “complex systems.”
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A Physicist with the Air Force in World War II

Alex E. S. Green
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Plucked out of graduate school after Pearl Harbor, a young physicist designed specialized slide rules for military aircraft. Trying them out aboard B‐29s in the war against Japan, he had some hair‐raising adventures.
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Physics Update

Barabara Goss Levi, Stephen G. Benka, Benjamin P. Stein, and Philip F. Schewe
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Another Visit with Wolfgang Pauli

Freeman Dyson, Kurt Gottfried, Luis J. Boya, Karl von Meyenn, and Engelbert L. Schucking
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Ailing Russian Scientist Jailed

Daniel C. Mattis
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Kuhn's Paradigm and a Scientific Border Dispute

Steve Fuller and Kenneth Wilson
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Science, Religion, Templeton Prize

W. Mark Stuckey, Freeman Dyson, Arthur S. Lodge, Matthew Housley, and Mark Friesel
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Blewett Had Help With GE Synchrotron

George C. Baldwin and Ernest D. Courant
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Novel Heavy‐Water Detector Unveils the Missing Solar Neutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Two thirds of the solar neutrinos confidently predicted by models of how the Sun works come to Earth disguised in altered flavors.
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Atoms Hop between Islands of Regular Motion in a Sea of Chaos

Barbara Goss Levi
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Collections of ultracold atoms a recontinuing to prove their worth as systems for studying the interface between quantum behavior and nonlinear dynamics.
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Experiments Detail How Powerful Ultrashort Laser Pulses Propagate through Air

Charles Day
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Thanks to self‐focusing, laser pulses can be launched upward into clouds where they can be used to measure pollutants.
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Spanish Physicists Hungry for Fresh Infusion of Jobs, Money

Toni Feder
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Tighter ties between research and industry, money for basic science, and jobs, jobs, and more jobs are needed to continue strengthening physics in Spain.
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Past Science Advisers Counsel Bush Nominee

Jim Dawson
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John Marburger's selection as the presidential science adviser was widely praised within the scientific community, but the importance the administration places on science remains uncertain.
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Satellite Seeks Space Ride

Toni Feder
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New York Academy Pulls Plug on The Sciences

Toni Feder
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McTague Takes Reins at UC's DOE Labs

Lynley Hargreaves
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News Notes

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570–1601

John Robert Christianson and Mary Lou West, Reviewer
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The Physics of Particle Detectors

Dan Green and Sheldon L. Stone, Reviewer
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The Feynman Integral and Feynman's Operational Calculus

Gerald W. Johnson, Michel L. Lapidus, and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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The Charm of Strange Quarks: Mysteries and Revolutions of Particle Physics

R. Michael Barnett, Henry Mühry, Helen R. Quinn, Mary Lauko, and Thomas J. Devlin, Reviewer
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Waves in Dusty Space Plasmas

Frank Verheest and Dan Winske, Reviewer
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Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

Richard F. Mould and Gennady Gorelik, Reviewer
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Introduction to Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics: A Case Study in Mechanical Vibration

Lawrence N. Virgin and Francis C. Moon, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Photonics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAPM Recognizes Contributions to Medical Physics

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AAAS Awards Lifelong Mentors

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Stern to Head ASA in 2002

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American Academy Elects New Members

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In Brief

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Leonard Mandel

H. Jeff Kimble and Emil Wolf
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Aleksandr Evgenievich Chudakov

Aleksandr S. Lidvansky and Georgii T. Zatsepin
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Milan V. Kurepa

Petar Grujić and Leposava Vušković
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Heinz Maier‐Leibnitz

Paul Kienle
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Robert Warren Morse

Robert T. Beyer
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James Samuel Owens

J. Pierce Webb
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Rolf M. Steffen

Paul Simms, Zbigniew Grabowski, Brooks Shera, and Hans Frauenfelder
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John Edmond Walsh

Maurice F. Kimmitt, Thomas C. Marshall, and William T. Doyle
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